Scholastica
Web and SaaS
academic publishing platform
SHOW HN2012
Scholastica
Scholastica, Academic Journal Publishing Platform & Scholarly Community
news.ycombinator.com#academic publishing#peer review#open access journals#scholarly journals
How HN took it
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Website looks nice and editors might try it.
From 1 comment
The website looks really nice. If I was the editor for a journal, I would consider trying this out. There have been a few "change academia" type websites on Hacker News before,…
lazyjeff on HN
Objections
Citation indexes, not publishing, are the real lock-in point.
From 2 comments
This is well intentioned but possibly aimed at the wrong target - the publishing part is not where things are locked down in scientific publishing, it's the indexing part.…
Morendil on HNOK. Let's just say that as a potential user of your product, I have a relatively good idea of what's wrong with academic publishing in my field and of how I'd like the world to…
Morendil on HN
Hard to attract established editors and credible reviewers.
From 1 comment
Just giving you some feedback from someone working in a (virology) research lab so I'd say I have a fair idea of what academia is like. My biggest question is, how do you plan on…
mrlase on HN
Charging fees conflicts with the goal of free access.
From 1 comment
Just giving you some feedback from someone working in a (virology) research lab so I'd say I have a fair idea of what academia is like. My biggest question is, how do you plan on…
mrlase on HN
Competes with free open source Annotum/WordPress.
From 1 comment
How are you going to distinguish your service from a free open source solution like Annotum/WordPress?
AAS on HN
Requests
Open source the software or offer self-hosting.
From 1 comment
Any chance that you might open source the software and provide a hosting solution instead? Are there other such OSS platforms?
zerostar07 on HN
Address citation index concerns.
From 1 comment
OK. Let's just say that as a potential user of your product, I have a relatively good idea of what's wrong with academic publishing in my field and of how I'd like the world to…
Morendil on HN
Questions
How is the service monetised?
From 1 comment
What's a possible monetization strategy here? Am I missing something?
brador on HN
How will it gain traction with established journals?
From 1 comment
Just giving you some feedback from someone working in a (virology) research lab so I'd say I have a fair idea of what academia is like. My biggest question is, how do you plan on…
mrlase on HN
Alternatives named
OJS (Open Journal Systems)
From 1 comment
We're not currently planning to open source the platform. But we are encouraging (though not forcing) journals to provide open access to their content. At the moment, our goal is…
coryschires on HN
Annotum/WordPress
From 1 comment
How are you going to distinguish your service from a free open source solution like Annotum/WordPress?
AAS on HN
Google Scholar and CiteSeer
From 1 comment
notable efforts to do so include Google Scholar and CiteSeer
ludflu on HN
science.io
From 1 comment
The website looks really nice. If I was the editor for a journal, I would consider trying this out. There have been a few "change academia" type websites on Hacker News before,…
lazyjeff on HN